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House Dems Paid $4 Million to Pakistani IT Professionals Now Under Criminal Investigation
freebeacon ^ | March 2, 2017 | Sam Dorman

Posted on 03/03/2017 7:36:09 AM PST by MarvinStinson

Dozens of House Democrats have collectively paid $4 million since 2009 to Pakistani IT professionals now under criminal investigation who had access to House members' email and computer files.

Capitol Police is investigating whether five members of the Awan family from Pakistan engaged in criminal activity, including theft, as computer administrators for dozens of House Democrats, some of whom serve on the intelligence, homeland security, and foreign affairs committees.

Democratic members from multiple committees "were inexplicably paying" the suspects who "they rarely or never saw," the Daily Caller News Foundation reported Wednesday.

The suspects–brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal, and two of their wives, Hina Alvi and Natalia Sova–had full access to the lawmakers' email and computer files for whom they worked and are part of a criminal theft and cyber security investigation.

The House members who paid the most to the Awans included Democratic Reps. Marcia Fudge (Ohio), Tim Ryan (Ohio), Jim Acosta (Calif.), and former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.).

Awan family members received outsized salaries in comparison to their colleagues working on Capitol Hill, raking in $5 million collectively since 2003. Imran Awan, for example, received $1.2 million in salary since 2010, while legislative assistants on Capitol Hill receive a median annual salary of $43,000.

Capitol Police is also looking into an off-site server that authorities did not know about but housed congressional data.

Brothers Iman and Abid Awan operated a Northern Virginia car dealership and reportedly received a $100,000 loan from a doctor and former Iraqi politician with ties to Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, and "spent significant time in Pakistan," according to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Some House Democrats reportedly fired the Awans after meeting with investigators. It is unclear how many lawmakers did so.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: awan; awanbrothers; dws; humaabedin; intelgate; itgate; pakistan; server; sunnimuslim; treason; wassermanschultz
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To: MarvinStinson

Were they Obama employees keeping an eye on the Dems ,LOL


21 posted on 03/03/2017 8:25:37 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: All

Even if they did heinous things, liking giving national secrets to Islam agents here and abroad:

I predict nothing (nothing) or nothing, will be done, in the _district_of_crime_ (high crimes and treason).

Washington DC is a lawless, evil empire. It is conquered territory; conquered by enemies of USConstitution. There are a few USAians there which continue to fight for USA, but it is lost.


22 posted on 03/03/2017 8:35:46 AM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Democrats may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: dfwgator

Personally I’d trust the Russians over the Pakistanis any day.


23 posted on 03/03/2017 8:40:14 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MarvinStinson

Special Prosecutor now! Advise all involved of material retention - no destruction of evidence.


24 posted on 03/03/2017 8:48:31 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Prosecute the win. Run up the score.)
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To: MarvinStinson

still no mention of arrest or no mention of where these people are at....


25 posted on 03/03/2017 8:52:05 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: UCANSEE2
Their full salary was shared amongst 30 or so Dem congress critters. It wasn't one rep paying the full salary.
26 posted on 03/03/2017 8:53:20 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (It is time to make America an uncomfortable place for Marxist usurpers.)
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To: MarvinStinson

An article mentioned Rao Abbas yesterday.
I just noticed they mentioned another wife - that makes 6 people involved.


27 posted on 03/03/2017 8:55:41 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: MarvinStinson

An article mentioned Rao Abbas yesterday.
I just noticed they mentioned another wife - that makes 6 people involved.


28 posted on 03/03/2017 8:55:44 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: TBP

Pakistan-Khalistan ping


29 posted on 03/03/2017 9:00:27 AM PST by indcons (Ajrawat lies, Americans die. Ban the Council of Khalistan.)
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To: MarvinStinson

The Huma-Paki alliance with Clinton-Obama-Pelosi is well known. There is a very strong Sunni lobby in the US that is comprised of wealthy Pakis, Saudis, Turks, and Khalistanis. The last are minor (and frankly, not very intelligent) players and water carriers for the Sunnis.


30 posted on 03/03/2017 9:04:10 AM PST by indcons (Ajrawat lies, Americans die. Ban the Council of Khalistan.)
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To: MarvinStinson

And I’m sure those Pakis kicked back some of that 4 million to the people in government that hired them.

That is the way IT does it.


31 posted on 03/03/2017 9:07:44 AM PST by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: MarvinStinson

This is the real story....

This is why the Dems are acting like retards and doing this Russian thing.


32 posted on 03/03/2017 9:09:53 AM PST by Professional
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To: rllngrk33

The H-1B program was designed as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act enacted in 1968. However, changes to the act by Obama in 2014 literally doubled the employment priority capacity of the immigrants.

The immigration changes would allow the spouses of certain H-1B visa holders to work in the United States, if the holders are in the process of applying for permanent residence.
While Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice president of the National Association for Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), says the changes would benefit both India and the U.S., the changes were not, however, welcomed by all. Though the fact that they will allow spouses to contribute to the local economy is considered a boon by supporters like Gupta. But that’s exactly what opponents take exception to. Charles Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa, told the New York Times that Obama’s administration announcement demonstrated a “lack of compassion and understanding” for unemployed Americans by expanding work benefits to immigrants.

It’s a blight on an economy that they Obama administration has been trying to destroy since his first actions as president in 2008.

red


33 posted on 03/03/2017 10:06:57 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: MarvinStinson

Who would hire Pakistanis to work in Congress? They couldn’t pass a security check!


34 posted on 03/03/2017 10:24:07 AM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: MarvinStinson

This is an attempt to divert the focus away from the security breach by these Pakis. Plus, it keeps the Trunp administration from progressing.


35 posted on 03/03/2017 10:27:28 AM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Crazed, Constitution-hating, sub-human Democrats! This party is subversive and is the enemy of this nation!


36 posted on 03/04/2017 3:17:44 AM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys are similar in that thorwing them down the stairs brings a smile to your face.)
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To: MarvinStinson

the hiring dems need to be investigated and relieved of duties


37 posted on 03/04/2017 3:39:41 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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